the first James Bond novel
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1960 Popular Library paperback original
1960 Popular Library paperback original, second of two books with Johnny Amsterdam
Michael Lawrence was one of the pseudonyms used by Lawrence Lariar
cover art attributed to Ted CoConis
April 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
better image than previously posted
cover art repurposed for1949 Popular Library paperback reprint
better image than previously posted
November 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
better image than previously posted
cover art repurposed for 1948 Popular Library paperback reissue
better image than previously posted
1952 Popular Library paperback ~ cover art by A. Leslie Ross
1952 Popular Library paperback original
cover art by A. Leslie Ross
better image than previously posted
1951 Popular Library reissue
published in 1948 by Macmillan, this a later 1951 Popular Library reissue
cover art by James Meese
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
pseudonym of Cleve F. Adams
1943 Dutton hardcover, this the later, 1949, Popular Library softcover
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
better image than previously posted
Behold This Woman x 2
1947 Appleton hardcover, this the Bantam softcover released the next year
cover art by William Shoyer
his fourth novel
1956 Popular Library reissue
cover art by Owen Kampen
Hardest of the Hardboiled #2 x 7
1933 Doubleday Doran advance reading copy
1948 Avon reprint, 1st paperback edition
cover art by Ann Cantor
Fast One was Cain’s sole novel
Chandler termed it the “high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner”
cover art by Victor Olsen
1978 Southern Illinois University Press
an entry in their “Lost American Fiction” series
1980 Popular Library 1st print reissue
cover art by Jin Campbell
1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin
February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
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